New calculations on blackbody energy set the stage for clocks with unprecedented accuracy
Monday, May 9, 2011 - 09:30
in Astronomy & Space
(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of physicists from the United States and Russia announced today that it has developed a means for computing, with unprecedented accuracy, a tiny, temperature-dependent source of error in atomic clocks. Although small, the correction could represent a big step towards atomic timekeepers' longstanding goal of a clock with a precision equivalent to one second of error every 32 billion yearslonger than the age of the universe.
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